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In this animation feature, the ancient legends of King Solomon are humorously adapted for children, with a contemporary and fresh overtone Adventure, magic, battles and love The hopeful ending celebrates the crossing of borders bet

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husbands aristocratic position in 18th century England

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa

In 1431, Jeanne dArc is placed on trial on charges of heresy The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving

The life and military conquests of Alexander III of Macedon July 2021, 356 June 1011, 323 B C , commonly known as Alexander the Great

A woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim in the ninth century disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks

The next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperinis powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II

The amazing story of a group of Jewish songwriters who wrote the soundtrack to Christmas

The history of mathematics from ancient times to the present day Narrated by Oxford mathematics professor Marcus du Sautoy, the series covers the seminal moments and people in the development of maths

Iconoclastic Adam Conover from CollegeHumor turns life as we know it on its ear by showing us how unnecessary, and sometimes horrible, things we think we know to be real and true really are

A dramatisation of the early years of Doctor Who 1963, with the story revolving around BBC executive Sydney Newman, novice producer Verity Lambert and actor William Hartnell

Meet John G Morris, 95, a legend of photojournalism, whose unerring eye for the best shot has moved and changed the world Morris, former Picture Editor of Life Magazine amp New York Times was instrumental in the early years of Magnum

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword

A dramatization that traces former UK prime minister Tony Blairs relationships with Bill Clinton and George W Bush

Follows the passing of the FIFA baton through three association presidents Jules Rimet, Joao Havelange, and Sepp Blatter

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic Church

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself

An African American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s

The story of how the British attacked German dams in World War II by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War

Sci fi writers once dreamed of computers and machines that would advance mankind, but now these dreams are our reality Artifical Intelligence is taking over and now the experts say that the end of our world as we know it is near

A deep dive into the hidden world of constructed languages and the fascinating people who make them

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France

An eighteenth century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley

A groundbreaking 26 part documentary series narrated by the actor Laurence Olivier about the deadliest conflict in history, World War II

Fire in the Night relives the tragic events that occurred on the Piper Alpha rig on 6th July 1988 It was a catastrophe that killed 167 men and left only 61 survivors, each of whom had to fight for their lives to escape the huge, lab

The story of John Wilmot, a k a the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his lifes work

Resistance at Tule Lake tells the long suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U S governments program of mass incarceration during World War II Branded as disloyals and re imprisoned at Tule Lake S

Caviar Dreams is a fish farm to table journey through the history, culture, and significance of one of the worlds most iconic delicacies

Americas Blues takes a new angle on the Blues, focusing on, not only the musical impact it has had on all forms of Popular American Music, but also the influence it has had on art, fashion, language, film and racial equality

After the Second World War, budding film composer Jerry Herst moves to Hollywood to study with infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco

Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive only, no one ever wi